Winter is setting in here, but at least this year we are both prepared with warmer coats, jackets and umbrella's. It has been painfully cold some days and it is set to get worse. It is times like this where I long for some Australian sun. It has been so cold I have had to scrape ice off the winshield of the car a few times now before driving. I even managed to start driving once without realising the windscreen was iced! I can attest to the fact that windscreen wipers go absolutely no way towards clearing ice off the windshield, on top of this, adding extra water from your winsheild sprays (in order to attempt to melt the ice) makes things even worse. Luckily after a few minutes of driving with the head out the window to see where you are going the ice melts and you can drive normally again :)
On the work front, Accenture has started consolidating it's London based offices into a brand new building, Plantation Place, 30 Fenchurch Street (Map). Our office made the move a few weeks ago, and it is a great one for me. Journey time to work has been cut down to only 55 minutes, without requiring any changes so I can just get on at Westcliff and get off again at the end of the line at Fenchurch street station. I have a view of the Lloyds Building from my desk. This building is supposed to have large architectural signifigance, however to me it really just looks like an isor, but maybe that is just because of the angle I have on the building. Sarah has had a busy busy month, with a understaffed office, everyone has to take up the slack and it makes for some tiring days. Hopefully after this week is over it will start to get a little better as some staff who were away on leave are back in the office and things should settle down to a more normal pace.
I think it is most likely we will be spending this Christmas with each other for company here in Essex this year. We are both working between Christmas an New Years, so it makes more sense for us to spend it here in Essex rather than away somewhere for a few days.
On the travel front, we are going to lie low for another few months, and our next trip is most likely going to be a trip to Prague, Czech Republic, in April 2005 with some of Sarah's work friends, one of whom is running in a marathon. I am really looking forward to this trip as I have wanted to visit Prague for a long time now, and looking through Bernie's Prague pictures just makes me want to visit more!
Posted by Mark at November 28, 2004 07:45 PM | TrackBack